The Health of Pacific Adults and Children Last Publication Date: 22 Mar 2013 This brief paper presents key findings about the health and wellbeing of Pacific adults and children in 2011/12. These results come from the New Zealand Health…
Primary Care for Pacific People: A Pacific and Health Systems Approach Last Publication Date: 13 Mar 2013 Pacific peoples have poorer health status across a wide variety of measures compared to the total New Zealand population. They also appear to have the least…
The place of KiwiSaver in New Zealand's retirement income framework Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 This report provides background for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income policy by the Commission for Financial Literacy and Retirement Income (CFLRI) on the role of…
Implications of global trends for retirement income policy Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 This paper aims to provide background information for those conducting the 2013 review of New Zealand’s retirement income and for New Zealanders who wish to participate…
Comparison of the New Zealand and Australian Retirement Income Systems Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 There are two main differences between the retirement systems of Australia and New Zealand. First, Australia’s age pension is means tested while New Zealand’s is universal.…
Retirement Security and Financial Literacy in New Zealand: Policy Lessons from Abroad Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 Most industrialized countries have in recent decades seen their long-standing retirement income policies challenged by demographic challenges (longer life expectancy and lower fertility rates), accompanied by…
Territorial Authority Community Sport and Recreation Facility Management Choices in New Zealand: Research Report Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 Sport New Zealand commissioned this research into the full range of sport and recreation facility management choices available to TAs. The aim was to produce a comprehensive and independent…
He Oranga Poutama: What have we learned? A report on the developmental evaluation of He Oranga Poutama Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 He Oranga Poutama (HOP) is a Sport NZ (formerly SPARC) initiative that supports Māori wellbeing through sport and recreation. In 2009, the programme evolved from a…
Workforce participation of older workers as an element of New Zealand’s Retirement Income Framework: A Review of Existing Knowledge and Data Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 As elsewhere, New Zealand faces major challenges in successfully managing the trend known as ‘population ageing’ (Jackson, 2007), illustrated at Figures 1 and 2. Although structurally…
Housing Assets: A Paper for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2013 This paper explores the connections between housing assets and retirement incomes. Older people’s high rates of home ownership today and rising house prices from about the…